48 Bible Verses about Family Conflict
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father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?
And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.
The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.
Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
Jehovah hath been mindful of us: he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;
Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.
He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;
But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.
But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;
A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.
Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.
only the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that shall be in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as booty for thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee
But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.
leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.
And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.
The beginning of contention is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.
And Naomi had a relation of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.
So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he said to him, Pursue; for thou shalt assuredly overtake them and shalt certainly recover.
Behold, I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and overflow and pass through.
And both these kings' hearts shall meditate mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
And I, behold, I appoint thee this day as a strong city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land; against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
And these are the children of Israel after their number, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in every matter of the divisions, which came in and went out month by month throughout the months of the year; in every division were twenty-four thousand.
And the builders had every one his sword girded by his side, and built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.
For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.
